Questions tagged [canada]
for questions about claims based in Canada, or limited to Canada. Can also refer to any element of Canada's history, policy, government, or politics.
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Would Canada be one of the poorer states if inducted into the United States?
In the Youtube video "Trump Threatens Canada, Greenland TAKEOVER
" Emily Jashinsky says,
If you add Canada to the United States, as a state, or as individual states, you're adding by GDP ...
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Are there emergences of scurvy in Canada?
CTV news writes
Dozens of people in Canada have scurvy, and it's because of food
A disease often thought to only affect 18th century sailors is reemerging in Canada.
Earlier this week, doctors ...
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Does Iowa have more farmland suitable for growing corn and wheat than Canada?
Stephen Haber ("professor of political science, professor of history, and professor of economics" at Stanford) claims in a 2014 podcast:
the state of Iowa has more farmland suitable for ...
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Was the testing of Covid-19 vaccines "rushed" or "unprecedented"?
Recently, a tweet was made by a Canadian politician, containing a video of a Canadian Member of Parliament, Anthony Housefather, who made some fairly outrageous claims regarding the production of ...
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Did the Ontario College of Psychologists demand that Jordan P Peterson attend 'communication retraining'?
Jordan B Peterson tweets and is further quoted in The Post Millennial
BREAKING: the Ontario College of Psychologists
@CPOntario
has demanded that I submit myself to mandatory social-media ...
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Will a proposed Canadian law allow minors to be euthanized without parental consent?
As reported on FoxNews. This immediately triggers my skepticism since it seems pretty extreme.
From the link above:
Creighton School of Medicine professor Charles Camosy joined 'Tucker
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Is there an increase in sales of child-size coffins?
A number of "news sites" have been reporting an increase in child-sized coffins. (The linked is an example, there are many more). The implication being there is an increase of childrens ...
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Are there mass graves of indigenous children in Canada?
In 2021 there were reports of mass graves in Canada. For instance, CNN analysis quotes Indigenous peoples
that tens of thousands of their children were forcibly removed from their families for ...
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Has the Kamloops International School "mass grave" been verified? [closed]
Throughout much of the news media over the last couple years in Canada (and internationally), it was claimed that a mass grave of 215 Native American children had been found at a mass grave site at ...
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Was there recent book burning in Canada?
Australian new source News.com.au reports
On Tuesday, it was reported in Canadian media that in 2019 a “flame
purification ceremony” was held by the French language school board
Conseil scolaire ...
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Is Alberta ending coronavirus restrictions because of failing to provide evidence of SARS-COV2 virus existence in court?
Variations of this image circulate claiming that a man named Patrick King won a court case in which he challenged the province to provide an isolated sample of the virus, which they failed. The rumors ...
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Were the remains of 215 indigenous children, some as young as 3 years old, found at the site of the Kamloops Indian Residential School in Canada?
According to many reports this week, a mass grave was found in Kamloops, BC, containing the remains of at least 215 indigenous children. For example: "Indigenous groups call for Canada to ...
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Was a Canadian father jailed for referring to his trans son as his daughter?
A recent PostMilennial article claims:
After the hearing, Hoogland gave an interview to The Federalist saying that people cannot change sex, and that mega-doses of exogenous testosterone would damage ...
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Do 50% of Canadians live south of the 45°42′N latitude?
Brilliant Maps claim that:
While the 49th parallel is often thought of as the border between the US and Canada, the vast majority of Canadians (roughly 72%) live below it, with 50% of Canadians ...
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Were Canadian politicians targeted by an Indian intelligence covert influence operation?
Global News reported that Canadian politicians were targets of Indian intelligence covert influence operation.
Indian intelligence agencies attempted to use money and disinformation to “covertly ...
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